The Texas Digital Library software development team began a multiple-week series of development sprints in March devoted to the TDL Preservation Network. The goal of the current effort is to create the means for local repository managers to select content from their DSpace repositories to be sent to PresNet and to retrieve their content from [...]
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TDL developing preservation-related DSpace plugin
Monday, March 28th, 2011TDL sprint review demos work on PresNet
Thursday, January 20th, 2011As it does each week, the TDL software development team held a public sprint review on January 20 at 2:30 PM to demonstrate work completed on the TDL Preservation Network (PresNet).
Weekly TDL sprint review and demo to be held January 13 at 2:30 PM
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011The next TDL Sprint Review will take place Thursday, January 13 at 2:30 PM. The review will demonstrate work completed during the latest sprint dedicated to the TDL Preservation Network.
TDL developers demo work on Preservation Network
Thursday, January 6th, 2011The TDL software development team held a Sprint Review on Thursday, January 6, to demonstrate work completed on the TDL Preservation Network. The team is currently holding weekly public Sprint Reviews each Thursday at 2:30 PM. TDL developer Joe Devries served as moderator for the sprint review and demonstrated work completed on two user stories. [...]
TDL development team begins weekly Sprint Reviews with January 6 demo
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011TDL is beginning 2011 with an invitation to its members to get a look inside the TDL software development process by attending weekly demonstrations held by the software team at the end of each development cycle.
NSF releases guidelines for data management
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010The National Science Foundation has released its new Data Management Policy for researchers preparing grant proposals.
TDL developers complete seventh PresNet sprint
Monday, August 23rd, 2010The TDL software development team held a sprint review on Monday, August 23, to demonstrate work completed in preparation for deployment of the TDL Preservation Network.
TDL team completes infrastructure development sprint
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010The TDL software development team transferred all work related to the development of the TDL Preservation Network into JIRA Studio, a hosted software tool that facilitates more efficient software development.
Why is digital preservation important?
Monday, April 12th, 2010The Library of Congress has produced a video that provides a nice beginner’s guide to some of the issues surrounding the long-term preservation of digital assets. See the video here. From the video’s description: Traditional information sources such as books, photos and sculptures can easily survive for years, decades or even centuries but digital items [...]
PresNet development sprint underway
Friday, April 9th, 2010The TDL team has begun work to advance the development of a Preservation Network (PresNet) that will store multiple copies of TDL assets at geographically distributed nodes.